git - How to develop and test a local go module

Question

I have this script:

#!/usr/bin/env bash

set -eo pipefail

cd "$(dirname "$BASH_SOURCE")";
pth_to_make="$GOPATH/src/ores/json-logging"
mkdir -p "$pth_to_make";
rm -rf "$pth_to_make";
ln -sf "$PWD" "$pth_to_make";

however this module is not declared as a go module in go.mod...I am symlinking a different dependency into the repo to test it.

The real dependency in production is at:

"$GOPATH/src/github.com/oresoftware/json-logging"

the test path is:

"$GOPATH/src/ores/json-logging"

Now, I would just delete the real dependency path in local development, the problem is that it then just deletes the .git folder in the repo and then I end up having to download that again.

Is there some way for me to symlink over the real repo/dep folder, but not lose the git stuff? Maybe I could do:

 mv   "$GOPATH/src/github.com/oresoftware/json-logging"  "/tmp/gotemp/json-logging"
 # call the script above
 # then when I am done:
 rm -rf "$GOPATH/src/github.com/oresoftware/json-logging"
 mv "/tmp/gotemp/json-logging" "$GOPATH/src/github.com/oresoftware/json-logging"  # put it back

would that be the best way forward?

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